CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of SPECTATOR on HORROR
DEADLINE: Jan. 30, 2002
> SPECTATOR
> The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television
> Criticism
>
> AXES TO GRIND:
> Reimagining the Horrific, Genre Theories and Visual Media
>
> As recent scholarship returns to the rigorous study of genre, the
> horror genre has reemerged as a critical site for interrogating
> important issues in media and cultural studies. Horror’s overt
> engagement with constructions of the “other” means a vested engagement
> with “problems” of gender, class, race and sexuality and other axes of
> difference; the variety of horror traditions in cultural contexts
> outside of Hollywood intersects with questions of national cinema; the
> proliferation of “the horrific” across media (the Internet,
> television, computer games, literature) indicates possible new avenues
> for considering generic intertextuality; horror’s devoted and
> specialized fan cultures provoke questions regarding spectatorship,
> narrative strategies of suture and fan activity; horror’s debased
> cultural status suggests reconsiderations of the politics of taste and
> the marginalization of aesthetic forms; the alternative ways in which
> horror is produced (e.g. The Blair Witch Project), distributed (e.g.,
> specialized video catalogues) and seen (e.g., midnight movies) suggest
> possibilities for disrupting Hollywood’s hegemonic business practices.
>
> This special issue of SPECTATOR seeks to develop and explore new
> approaches to studying the horror genre in cinema and other visual
> media, by interrogating the validity of established methodologies and
> approaches to horror and genre study, as well as proposing new models
> and questions for genre study beyond horror.
>
> Papers that engage questions of horror from different
> locations--different articulations of theory, new objects of
> studies--are especially encouraged.
>
> Possible topics include but are not limited to:
>
> -- underresearched/undertheorized horror subgenres, historical cycles
> of horror, and/or horror “auteurs”
>
> --recent “millenial” horror and its relation to prior fin de siecle
> horror and gothic literatures and contexts
>
> --other national cinemas’ and/or non-Hollywood traditions of the
> horrific
>
> --re-evaluations of the “mythic” underpinnings of horror
>
> --the transnational/border-crossing of horror production, marketing,
> consumption
>
> --the political and ideological valences of horror
>
> --horror and history
>
> --new technologies’ impact on horror’s reception, distribution and
> production
>
> --horror in other media (such as television, Halloween haunted houses,
> wax museums, internet, fantasy role-play gaming) and its relation to
> cinematic horror
>
> --the status of horror as a “saturated” genre at the beginning of the
> 21st century
>
> --horror’s “low” cultural status and the politics of taste and culture
> in horror texts, distribution, and consumption
>
> --the application of notions of “the Other” to underexplored
> categories of difference in horror (such as race, class and age)
>
> --re-examinations of the relationship of horror to gender
>
> --the interrogation of psychoanalysis as the privileged model for
> engaging horror
>
> --horror’s “alternative” production, distribution and exhibition
> practices
>
> --the interaction of horror with the (screen and spectating) body and
> the body’s relationship to genre
>
> --horror and “excess”
>
> --the limits and borders of the horror genre
>
> --the interaction of horror with other genre forms
>
> --the eruption of “horror” in non-horror films
>
>
> Deadline for submissions is January 30, 2002. Papers should be no
> longer than 7000 words and should be in MLA format. Authors of papers
> accepted for this special issue of SPECTATOR will be required to
> provide for publication two (2) images related to their topic.
>
> Submissions should be mailed to:
>
> Harmony Wu
> Spectator Editor
> Department of Visual and Media Arts
> Emerson College
> 120 Boylston Street
> Boston, MA 02116
>
> For further information or questions, contact HARMONY WU:
> harmony_wu@emerson.edu
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